DUTA Letter to VC, 08.08.2018

To
Professor Yogesh Tyagi
The Vice-Chancellor
University of Delhi
Delhi – 110007

8.06.2018

Sub: Delay in Releasing Pensions to retired teachers holding GPF accounts

Dear Prof. Tyagi,

Please refer to our letter to you dated 17.04.2018 in which we had welcomed the letter from the Finance Branch dated 05.04.2018, addressed to the College Principals and hoped that this would be followed by the immediate release of pension to all with GPF numbers given by the university.

However, to our dismay, on 05.06.2018 (two months after the letter from the Finance Branch) we were informed by the Hon’ble HRD Minister, Shri Prakash Javadekar, that his office had not received any estimate from the University till date.

The core issue here is that in the act of taking away the employer’s contribution to CPF and issuing GPF accounts to the concerned employees, the Colleges/University had entered into an agreement with each one of them that henceforth they would be in the GPF cum Pension scheme.  At no stage did any of these employees go to the Courts of Law against the University/Colleges, nor did the latter make these employees a party to any of the litigation over the Pension issue. There really was no bar to the release of pension to these teachers. Nor does any such bar exist today.

The failure of the University to provide the estimates of the financial implications of Pension release to these GPF account holders is unacceptable. You are well aware of the  hardships faced by the retired teaching and non-teaching employees of the University. What is even more disturbing is that so far the University has not even cleared the cases of those teaching and non-teaching employees who were shifted over to GPF cum Pension in 1988.

Urgent action on the Pension issue at your level, and at the level of the UGC/Government of India will certainly create a more conducive atmosphere in which we can jointly address the crisis in the University and the burning issues that have led to this crisis.

We appeal to you to have the estimates sent to the UGC and MHRD latest by Tuesday, 12th June, as promised by the PVC and and Registrar in our last meeting.

Regards,